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“When I went in there, they tackled me. Both of them jumped up on top of me," the homeowner said. "I come back and they see me with a gun, and they run."

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We are currently aware of and looking into issues folks are having with our newsletter sign-up (namely that it's not letting some people do it). We'll get it figured out soon, but until then here’s a what we’ve been up to in the mean time…

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The South Porte Bank in Marion, Illinois, is not only allowing its employees to carry concealed handguns, they are letting everyone know they always have.

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The ATF with the Chicago Police Department and NSSF are offering a $10,000 reward for any information leading to the capture of those responsible for stealing a batch of S&W M&P rifles from a Chicago rail yard

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Talk to anyone in the know, and they'll tell you the worst first carry gun is a light-weight snub nosed revolver. Not because the gun doesn't get the job done, but because it requires a ton of practice and skill to master.

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In a world filled with super-high capacity 'wondernines', Smith and Wesson found a remarkable level of success in the 1990s with a design that kept it old school. Let’s kick it for a minute with the Smith and Wesson 4500 series.

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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s ex-wife removed a gun from her vagina and threatened her boyfriend after an argument over space aliens Saturday night, The Smoking Gun reports. Jennifer McCarthy, 48, is the ex-wife of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, who authored “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” but this tale is stranger […]

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For two decades, the Smith & Wesson 65 rode on hips of countless officers. If boys in blue trusted their lives to the S&W 65 than it’s good enough for me.

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Many have said that guns and girls go together, but one master engraver took the concept to a whole new level when he etched a pornographic scene onto the frame of a revolver and carved an elephant ivory handle into an obviously overt phallus. But, if you’re looking for erotica and a .38-caliber Smith & […]

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For the past fifty years, if you wanted a well-made competition grade .22-pistol right out of the box, one of the guns on your short list was Smith and Wesson 41.

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The cased .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver allegedly used by NFL player Aaron Hernandez was found in the trunk of 19-year-old Jaliene Diaz-Ramos’ car after she crashed near Springfield, Massachusetts last June. In July of 2012, two immigrants from Cape Verde were murdered outside a Boston night club after Hernandez and his posse engaged them […]

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A three-year-old boy died in a tragic firearm accident Sunday when he accidentally shot himself in the head after finding an unlocked handgun. The grieving father said on Facebook just hours afterwards that he still supports the right to bear arms. Brian Holbrook returned home to be with his children in Dundee, Michigan, after a […]

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